Ploutos , no wonder mortals worship you: You are so tolerant of their sins !

Fairly examined, truly understood, No man is wholly bad, nor wholly good.

Boy, you're like a horse. Just now sated with seed, You've come back to my stable, Yearning for a good rider, fine meadow, An icy spring, shady groves.

Not to be born at all would be the best thing for man.

He who mistrusts most should be trusted least.

Restrain thy mind, and let mildness ever attend thy tongue.

The greatest treasure you can leave your children is a sense of modesty and the advice to follow virtuous persons.

Even to a wicked man a divinity gives wealth, Cyrnus, but to few men comes the gift of excellence.

Surfeit begets insolence, when prosperity comes to a bad man.

Bright youth passes swiftly as a thought.

One finds many companions for food and drink, but in a serious business a man's companions are very few.

Imagination is the highest kite that can fly.

If there had been an exercise I'd liked, would I have gotten this big in the first place?

Sometimes the bridge that leads to heaven is the very hell itself!

Loyalty is the pledge of truth to oneself and others.

Why should I read something someone made up when real events are so interesting?

The number of transistors on an integrated circuit will double in about 18 months.

There's nothing more dangerous than a panicked politician.

When I first started, I was kind of surprised that anyone would ever hire me at all. So I took everything that I was offered.

Edison failed ten thousand times before he perfected the modern electric lamp. The average man would have quit at the first failure. That's why there are so many average men and only one Edison.

Every man is an omnibus in which his ancestors ride.